The first assignment in Strudelmedia’s class: Stretch your creative muscles (hahaha as if I actually have any creative muscles to stretch) is: take eight to ten photos of a public bench (the same bench – not eight to ten different benches. The bench, details of the bench, what goes on around the bench, and so on.

So on Max’s weekly day off from me, off I went to Urbanhafen in search of a photogenic bench. Or just a bench. Benches are not photogenic. I very rarely see a nice-looking bench.

Anyway, I was not in photography mode, the sun was out most of the time which I don’t particularly like, I could not see what was going on on the screen, it was one of those days where I hated Berlin, and people, and life. I took about a hundred awful photos, all blurry and grainy and either over- or underexposed.

I have tried to make the best of the following short-list, and will whittle it down to ten, nine or eight photos later: